You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
D. H. LAWRENCEYou can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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